Reports from Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun say, Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea, is missing a day after his excessive punishment was set to begin.
Warmbier, 21, was visiting North Korea on a five-day trip when he was detained at the airport and accused of stealing a poster from his hotel room.
His guilty verdict was essentially guaranteed under North Korean law which does not allow for any defense against the charges of crimes of violence towards the state. A coerced confession was taped and used as propaganda for the North Korean people and for the illusion that Warmbier committed a crime to the rest of the world.
Now he is missing. A North Korean spokesman said, “He is not missing, he is unaccountable for. That is a difference. He will be accountable for soon like he was accountable for heinous crimes against North Korea and its people.”
“Stealing from a hotel is one of the worst crimes you can commit. Our morals in North Korea are too high for most Americans and our courts are the fairest in the world. Our Leader tells us this every day and he has never been wrong on anything in his life and he can bench press 800 pounds.”
“Kim Jung-un has made North Korea great again under his supreme leadership. We even built a city on Mars. The rest of the earth has only gone to the moon.”
Human, rights?
“Prisoners going missing in one of the dozen North Korean concentration camps is common,” said Tom Finigan of the human rights group, Rights For People. “They are the worst places on earth. Hundreds of thousands have died, there is routine torture, and starvation is rampant. It’s Hell on Earth.”
Those prisoners who manage to be released tell horrific tales of human rights violations that North Korea adamantly denies.
People have been sent to prison for speaking badly of the country or from spite of a person in authority. Many families wish their relatives to die rather than endure the suffering and torture of the prison camps.
Regarding the prison living conditions, “By the time you wish you could catch a rat for food and straw for warmth, and almost no chance of ever leaving, death might be the sane alternative.
“It’s also common for people to go missing in these prisons. Their safety is not a priority and many records are done through a paper filing system with hundreds of thousands of people in the death camps.
“Missing means dead sometimes and sometimes they are found in a different prison after a mix-up in paperwork. Who the hell knows in that wacko, piece of shit country.”
All of this comes after North Korea launched several long-range missiles and tested yet another nuclear weapon.
The US State Department warns against visiting the shit hole country in an official statement made today.
